User blog comment:TheSinnohDuo/Rate my team!/@comment-32358261-20180317083235

You know if you want a decent chance at pvp NEVER USE STORY TEAMS.

Iv, ev, nature, items, moves, abilities and the Pokémon itself all matter. If you are too lazy to actually put effort into this then you really shouldn’t play pvp at all.

Never have more than one mega per team. At the most 2 (though this is still isn’t the greatest choice)

I’ll give you a brief summary of what I think of all Pokémon. Luxray isn’t great due to it specialising in attack. There aren’t many if any good physical electric move to make the most of stab. Running special would just be meh at best. Speed isn’t great either. Mega manetric, magnezone, rotom wash and jolteon are better picks. For a sweeper go for mega manetric (or jolteon but jolteon is considerably weaker)

Mega pidgeot is somewhat ok. It can use hurricane spam that could work pretty good. The issue is that movepool isn’t the best. Mega salamence is overall a better choice.

Espeon is pretty much a poor man’s Alakazam. It doesn’t hold much over Alakazam. Anything espeon can do, Alakazam does better. The biggest drawback on it is the awful movepool. A fate that happens to affect all eeveelutions

Genesect is very good. I don’t really know much about it but it’s in ubers so it’s doing something right.

Empoleon is okish as a special bulky water type. Since so many Pokémon fir this archetype, it’s outclassed by many. Suicune, toxapex and alolomomola to name a few.

Mega metagross is very good. A good speed tier (although very crowded), great ability, typing, movepool. Isn’t much to fault.

Mega absol can hit hard but it’s coverage is bad. Outclassed by the likes of bisharp.